Meaning: you're done in, in trouble; your cause is lost (example 1, example 2) Rewrite 1: your potatoes are mashedRewrite 2: your steak is friedRewrite 3: your chocolate has meltedRewrite 4: the letter is mailedRewrite 5: the words are in print Comment: "Your goose is cooked" often has an almost fatalist quality to it suggesting consequences will follow and now your fate is decided. I've written a range of possible recasts that go from the simple "something devastating has happened" to the "something is now beyond your control" quality, but there is a fuller range you could explore.
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Sorry I was unable to slay more clichés this week. Too many things happened this week that prevented it -- I have higher hopes for next week!
posted by Booksville Bookclub at 10:21 AM on Mar 27, 2010
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